Time for an Upgrade !

[Stan_Lite]

Another one for the Intel fan club here.

The core 2 chips are so much better than AMD just now. If you're building the rig virtually from scratch, I can see no logic in spending money on inferior hardware.

Just one question.

How did you come to have a 580W tagan in a socket A system? - slight overkill n'est-ce pas?

[Justsomebloke]

Get something like a 6600 & clock the nuts of it. I am old school AMD myself but if i upgrade it'll be to a Pentium.
I can hear baby jesus crying right now

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Bigstan

How did you come to have a 580W tagan in a socket A system? - slight overkill n'est-ce pas?

My XP1700+ system had a 550W PSU (actually it had two as the first one died).

Did have a shedload of disks in it though.

[Tysonator]

Originally Posted by Bigstan

Another one for the Intel fan club here.

The core 2 chips are so much better than AMD just now. If you're building the rig virtually from scratch, I can see no logic in spending money on inferior hardware.

Just one question.

How did you come to have a 580W tagan in a socket A system? - slight overkill n'est-ce pas?

Yes over kill, I got it for future proof when I upgrade to SLi.
The price was right at the time, so I brought it.
It will fit nicely into my new build.

[Tysonator]

Which Intel chip do you guys suggest ?

[Feek]

I can't really comment on the quad cores as I've not looked into them, and the new ones are higher fsb than when I was looking so I can't really advise now

[Mark]

Right. Pricing up the X2 6000+ I came up with £108.09. Price-wise, the best you can get is the E6550 at £107.50. Trouble is that's a 1333 MHz part, which tends to limit options on other components.

I still think the E6600 is one of the best buys around in the Core2Duo range, at £131.59.

Of course, if you want silly amounts of power, then the Core2Quad range starts at £176.24.

Prices from scan.co.uk, other retailers may vary.

[Davey_Pitch]

Originally Posted by Mark

Right. Pricing up the X2 6000+ I came up with £108.09. Price-wise, the best you can get is the E6550 at £107.50. Trouble is that's a 1333 MHz part, which tends to limit options on other components.

I still think the E6600 is one of the best buys around in the Core2Duo range, at £131.59.

Of course, if you want silly amounts of power, then the Core2Quad range starts at £176.24.

Prices from scan.co.uk, other retailers may vary.

The E6750 is available from Scan for £122.19. Wouldn't that be a better choice?

[Matblack]

This is what I am looking at at the moment



I'll be using the on board VGA and the mobo has to be uATX to fit my case which doesn't seem to leave much choice

MB

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Matblack

This is what I am looking at at the moment

I'll be using the on board VGA and the mobo has to be uATX to fit my case which doesn't seem to leave much choice

MB

The onboard graphics on the Gigabyte boards is about as good as onboard graphics gets - unless you intend playing any graphics intensive games,you'll be all right with that lot.
Dunno about that board but the Gigabyte uATX board I had didn't have much scope for overclocking. If you don't intend overclocking too much, I'm sure you'll be fine with that board

Tysonator:

I thought that's what it would be. I usually get PSUs about 100W more than I'm going to need at the time to allow for upgrades. That Tagan should do you well, I have the same PSU in my gaming rig and thats a Q6600 with an 8800GTX with 2x320Gb Seagates and it copes splendidly.

The E6600 is an excellent chip, bloody fast at stock and very overclockable.
If you're looking for something a bit cheaper the E6320 should be a good buy - if it's anything like it's lower cache counterpart, the E6300, it should overclock very well.
For another fiver, you could have the E6550. I haven't seen one of these so can't comment on their performance. Only thing with that is that as it's a 1333MHz chip, you'd be limited to 680i or P35 motherboards.